Providing insights to help explain why smart electricity meters are being encouraged

07FebNovember 2, 2015

In his article in February 2006, Nigel Wilson from The Australian has quoted our CEO, Paul McArdle in his article “Smart new meters to cut power” in February 2006. Mr Wilson sought insights from Paul in relation to news that Australian household would be encouraged to use smart electricity meters to cut electricity bills and reduce pressure on governments to build new power stations:

Queensland company Global Roam, which monitors electricity generation, said last week total demand for electricity in Queensland and NSW was 21,079 megawatts, while total available generation was 20,090MW.

Managing director Paul McArdle said the only reason lights were not going out was that the Snowy hydroelectric scheme was generating at near capacity and sending all its production into NSW.